Death to Paper Design: Workflows, Tools and Iteration in Level Design

  Level design today is less about following fixed steps and more about balancing creativity with practicality, ensuring that workflows support, rather than limit the outcome of our work. It’s about finding smarter, more fluid ways to bring game worlds to life and not waste time in pointless or inefficient tasks. In this talk, I won’t present the ultimate solution for success, but I will rather share insights from my experience to shed some light on this constantly evolving world that is level design.

Lots of Objects, Not Enough Time: Practical Use of Acceleration Structures

In graphics, game development, and many other math-intensive fields, we frequently encounter tasks that require searching or comparing large numbers of objects based on their spatial relationships. Examples include collision detection in physics engines and visibility determination when rendering complex scenes. This talk will cover examples ranging from simple to complex, highlighting the inefficiencies of naive approaches and demonstrating how acceleration structures can help. We’ll also explore problems that still require creative solutions beyond standard techniques.

UI material creation: texture-based or procedural and SDF-based approach?

   Both approaches have their advantages and disadvantages – it depends on the problem you are trying to solve. We will now look at the topic through UI examples, but these principles can be easily transferred to other areas. As an addition, we will also delve a little into the world of SDF (Signed Distance Field): how to create shapes in shaders based on pure mathematics – without textures, pixel-precise.

Lunch Break